Representatives of the management of supermarkets in St. Petersburg admit that the further, the more difficult it is to find farmers who supply organic and organic agricultural products for selling food on the shelves of chain stores.

According to the owners of some St. Petersburg retail chains, farmers are literally slipping away from the “chain retailers”, even though supermarkets sell products in full and rarely practice returning goods to the manufacturer.

“As a result, we have to order, for example, parmesan cheese or farm-made meat delicacies in Moscow, although we could save time and money by ordering similar high-quality goods from manufacturers from the Leningrad region,” complained the owners of supermarkets in the Northern capital.

As for the farmers themselves, they admit that in most cases, experience with supermarkets is a headache for them.

Many of them tried to organize islets to sell farm products on the basis of such supermarkets as Auchan and Pyaterochka, but as a result they were frightened either by exorbitantly high rents or by the fact that purchasers from supermarkets could not pay suppliers from villages on time and in full.

Instead of going broke about paying a rent or waiting for a payment, farmers massively go into Internet trading, or open their own trading platforms for the sale of environmentally friendly goods.